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«Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.»
«The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.»
«Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Innocence | Keywords: bell, leper, lepers, wandering
«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»
«Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.»
«What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; / Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; / The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: creeping, leper, uncleanness
«Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, / There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: alabaster, Bethany, leper, ointment
«So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: belonged, burial, Jotham, leper, stead
«Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper.»

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